Well if I haven't played a certain game in a while I somtimes forget the controls and die a couple of times before I get the hang of it.
Instictively trying to use a technique in the wrong game.
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I've had a similar experience in Deus Ex: Human Revolution. For some reason I keep thinking that R2 will make me sprint. It throws secondary weapons like grenades. Oops. And honestly, I don't know why I keep trying to sprint with R2. It just seems natural.Spygon said:
Just Cause 2.
When I first started playing, I had just come off several weeks of GTA4 - several playthroughs and one final surge getting 100% completion in the game.
I tried to play JC2 in the same techniques - cover-based shooting, realism and general caution, and got torn apart.
JC2 and GTA4 are a stark contrast between realism and lunatic fun... and going from one to the other is quite jarring.
When I first started playing, I had just come off several weeks of GTA4 - several playthroughs and one final surge getting 100% completion in the game.
I tried to play JC2 in the same techniques - cover-based shooting, realism and general caution, and got torn apart.
JC2 and GTA4 are a stark contrast between realism and lunatic fun... and going from one to the other is quite jarring.
I got used to mashing X to run in Red Dead Redemption, and when I switched to Call of Duty I couldn't stop jumping.
Playing God of War, I keep trying to move the camera with the right stick, and end up rolling around like an idiot.
Back when I played Super Smash Brothers Brawl alot, when I played other games I would catch myself trying to "recover" from falling off cliffs.
And now that I play Mortal Kombat alot, I find myself trying to block with R2 in all kinds of different games.
Playing God of War, I keep trying to move the camera with the right stick, and end up rolling around like an idiot.
Back when I played Super Smash Brothers Brawl alot, when I played other games I would catch myself trying to "recover" from falling off cliffs.
And now that I play Mortal Kombat alot, I find myself trying to block with R2 in all kinds of different games.
I sometimes have a strong urge to hold down the shift key while approaching a ledge to look over them in games other than Minecraft.
Any FPS I play after Fallout 3 or New Vegas, I end up trying to go into VATS. This is especially exciting when grenades are mapped to that button instead.
The first time I ever played the sc2 mod with unlimited money I had been playing the actual game for a long time, so I basically did a standard 1v1 build while my opponent came at me with 40 mutas at the 5 minute mark. 
Hmm ... as a long-time Total War series general, it always sucks when I try to play Starcraft/Blizzard-style RTS against a human opponent.
I set up my troops expecting .. y'know .. realism. And not suicidal soldiers. Pisses me off no end when the final results show me eliminating something like 5 times more troops, but him winning because they're immune to morale effects.
I set up my troops expecting .. y'know .. realism. And not suicidal soldiers. Pisses me off no end when the final results show me eliminating something like 5 times more troops, but him winning because they're immune to morale effects.
In Alpha protocol the first thing I did was press select to get the Codec radio...Then I was like "Oh, wait."
Whenever I replay Brawl with friends I try to do an aerial combo from Marvel vs. Capcom 3.
I usually end up dying.
I usually end up dying.
Oh my yes.CrematedCube said:
Also, it's hideous when WASD refuses to work in a game (especially an RTS; Looking at you DoW2:R!)
Not to mention mechanics like wall running, and worse; the auto jump feature from Arkham Asylum in a platformer. Oh that burned.
The first Third-person game I played on my PS3(before I was mainly a PC gamer) was Assassins Creed Brotherhood, now hen playing 3 person shooters I instinctively hit R1+X to sprint.